For alejandro jodorowsky, many of our problems and neuroses come from the barriers created by our society, family and culture, and these stop us. Something is dreaming us, surrender yourself to illusion. Of all the possible cinematic trends of 2014, who could have possibly foreseen that the return to prominence of alejandro jodorowsky would be among them. I dont see any difference between poetry and cinema. This film is an exercise in imaginary autobiography. The dance of reality is a 20 chileanfrench semiautobiographical musical fantasy drama film written, produced, and directed by alejandro jodorowsky, starring brontis jodorowsky, pamela flores, and jeremias herskovits. It was there that jodorowsky underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family. Blending his personal history with metaphor, mythology and poetry, the dance of reality reflects jodorowskys. Surrealism in the autobiographical cinema of alejandro. The dance of reality marks jodorowskys first film in almost 23 years.
Alejandro jodorowsky relives his troubled childhood in 1930s chile in a film of carnivalesque exuberance. From film trailer you and i, have only been memories, never reality. It is alejandro jodorowskys first film in 23 years. The former film was released in 20 and the latter in 2016. To date he has published more than 23 novels and philosophical treatises, along with.
Alejandro jodorowsky was born in 1929 in tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the chilean desert, where this film was shot. Alejandro jodorowsky directed, wrote, produced and portrayed himself in the film. They are the first two installments of a projected fivepart autobiographical series. In childhood, alejandro jodorowsky, son of a rich expat merchant in chile, is pulled back and forth between his communist father, who is just as authoritative as the countrys dictatorial government, and a lovedstarved mother whose breasts are as generous as they are suffocating. The film begins focusing on jodorowsky as a kid, then shifts more toward his father.
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